John Galt was a genius. He invented "the motor" and executed the greatest strike in world history. And it's clear that he understood the danger he was always in (out in the world) and how the looters operate. So it has always been puzzling to me why, at the end of Atlas Shrugged, Galt thought it...

Elizabethan Prose Elizabethan prose fiction is a relatively neglected genre compared to drama (Shakespeare, Marlowe etc.) and poetry (Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, etc.). It includes works such as Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit (1578) and Euphues and His England (1580) by John Lyly (leading to t...

In Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea series of books and stories, there is a kind of hierarchy for people who practice magic: witches and sorcerers on one level, and wizards and mages on a higher level. Witches and sorcerers received no training on Roke. Witches and sorcerers are easy to distinguish, s...

Since the motivation and argument supporting my question is long, but the question itself is fairly short, I will state the question as a spoiler. If the answer turns out to be indeed yes, then it would certainly spoil a brave first reading of Finnegans Wake. I wish to first introduce the curr...